T. J. English (born October 6, 1957) is an American author and journalist known primarily for his non-fiction books about organized crime — both contemporary and historical — criminal justice, jazz, and the American underworld. Biography. T. J. English was born in Tacoma, Washington and grew up in an Irish Catholic family of ten children. His father was a steelworker and his mother a social worker for Catholic Charities. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 1980, English worked as a high school teacher in East Los Angeles.
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